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Tangela

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Tangela has been given to 3,784 babies in the U.S. since 1956. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1971, with 193 recorded.

Babies named Tangela, 2011

1 in 457,000

Tangela over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tangela: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tangela means

Tangela is a given name.

The naming story behind Tangela

Wikidata records Tangela as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q111535077, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,784 girls were recorded with the name Tangela between 1956 and 2011. Its highest annual count was 193 in 1971; its best national rank was #759 in 1973.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Tangela?

Tangela had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2011, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2011
1 in 457,000
8 of 3,657,935 births
Among girls only
1 in 220,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2011
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
316,937 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tangela sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2011 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 316,937 children born in 2011 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tangela. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tangelas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tangela was born before 1974 — so the typical Tangela is around 51 today.

Median birth year
1974
About 51 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
38.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
16.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,784
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 38.8% of all recorded uses (1,467).

Is Tangela rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1971 (193)
Years since peak
54
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#759
1973

Spellings of Tangela

Tangela is not the most common spelling — Angela is, with 74.3% against Tangela's 0.42%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Tangela is used

Across 1910–2025, Tangela was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 6,250 girls, against 1 in 48,986 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

016 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 6,250
  2. 2Georgia1 in 14,286
  3. 3Louisiana1 in 16,667
  4. 4Alabama1 in 20,000
  5. 5Mississippi1 in 20,000
  6. 6North Carolina1 in 33,333
  7. 7Tennessee1 in 33,333
  8. 8South Carolina1 in 50,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Tangela has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Notable people named Tangela

People whose public names include Tangela, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Tangela by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#759
1973
Peak year
1971
193 that year
First recorded
1956
Last recorded
2011
All-time count
3,784
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Tangela

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Tangela

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Tangela, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Tangela

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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